Dr. Robert (Bob) Novella
speaker
1,941 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 19 Sep
Dr. Robert (Bob) Novella’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And Pong showed the whole world what a good video game, basically that video games have a future.
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And that's where it really took off.
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Let's see, shall we?
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Let's dig in and see what happens.
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We played Pong.
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That was our first video game.
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Hours of entertainment.
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Oh my God, yes.
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So if you ask Nolan Bushnell, he asked a developer, this is a guy that developed computer space and had a hand in Pong.
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Ask him, why?
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Why did computer space fail?
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And he would say this.
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Over the years, this is what he says.
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He's like, it was too complex for bar goers.
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He doesn't have a very high opinion of bar.
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Did he think they were all drunk and trying to play drunk?
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I don't know, but that's what he says.
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It was too complex and nobody wanted to read instructions.
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So that's kind of like the common wisdom.
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That's what people say happened.
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